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The Zoroastrian Women’s Organization, an NGO founded in 1950 in Iran, is trying to empower women and girls in different aspects, Mehrangiz Shahzadi, the vice president of the organization said.

With the liberation of Mosul imminent, the international community must maintain a dual focus on defeating the remaining Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) forces in Iraq, and on...

The first assembly of female experts in Iran, dubbed “women’s parliament”, opened in the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province, on Sunday.

President's Deputy for Women and Family Affairs said: "Currently we are evaluating and achieving a data bank on Women's NGOs, which will include NGOs that been established by women or are active in...

Six women have been elected to Tehran’s 5th city council election, registering a record high out of the total 21 members.

Women compose ten percent of the Iranian administration, the vice president in women and family affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, said.

Iranian women, especially mothers, play an essential role in encouraging families to buy Iranian made goods, Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi said

Samaneh Shad-Del has been elected as the mayor for district 2 of the city of Zanjan, northwestern Iran.

Some 180,000 breadwinner women across the country are currently supported by the State Welfare Organization, said Habibollah Masoudi-Farid, the deputy director of the organization.

Citing a significant rise over the past year in the number of women dying from drug overdoses globally, the independent expert body which monitors Governments’ compliance with the United Nations...

An independent United Nations expert urged Saudi officials to use their bold new plan for economic transformation to improve the human rights of women and the poor.

The health, hygiene and protection needs of women and girls displaced in Aleppo are staggering, the United Nations has observed, voicing concern for civilians in the Syrian city that has endured...

Protest movement seeks to end Saudi Arabia law requiring women have permission of a male guardian to travel, marry or do other fundamental tasks

The Presidential Deputy on Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi said: “our main objective in the country’s five year plan is the realisation of gender justice, and we are pursuing...

The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology supports women’s creative and innovative activities, the telecom minister Mahmoud Vaezi said here on Tuesday.

Zahra Pishgahi-Fard, the director general for human rights and women’s affairs at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in her visit to Jakarta, Indonesia, visited Yohana Susana Yembise, the...

Hospitals, ambulances, schools and displaced people escaping violence are being routinely targeted by airstrikes in Syria, resulting in high numbers of deaths and injuries, and making September the...

More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery – forced labour and forced marriage – in 2016, a United Nations study has found, revealing the true scale of such...

Specialize meeting on ‘family’s influence on formation of one’s self-damage and growth’ was held on Sunday 17th May, 2015 in the conference Hall of the Organization for Defending Victims of...

Child causality figures have been alarmingly high in recent conflicts. Israel's targeting of residential buildings has made women and children more vulnerable to death and injury in the armed...